Bristol County Savings Bank awards $62K to nonprofits through charitable foundation

BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK awarded $62,000 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations in the Pawtucket area through its Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation on Wednesday at McCoy Stadium.
BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK awarded $62,000 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations in the Pawtucket area through its Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation on Wednesday at McCoy Stadium.

PAWTUCKET – Bristol County Savings Bank awarded $62,000 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations in the Pawtucket area through its Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation on July 8 at McCoy Stadium.
The event featured a welcome address by Patrick J. Murray Jr., president of BCSCF and president and CEO of BCSB, remarks by Mayor Donald R. Grebien and check presentations to area organizations by Murray.

The foundation presented checks to the following organizations at the ceremony: Arts Marketplace – Pawtucket ($2,500); Bishop Keough Regional High School ($7,000); Books Are Wings ($6,500); Camp Ruggles Inc. ($4,000); Children’s Friend and Service ($7,500); Exchange Street Open Studio Plus ($2,500); Memorial Hospital of RI ($7,500); Old Slater Mill Association ($6,000); Pawtucket Soup Kitchen ($2,000); St. Cecilia School ($1,200); The Arc of Blackstone Valley ($5,300); The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre ($5,000); and the University of Rhode Island Foundation on behalf of the First Star URI Academy ($5,000).

“I don’t think the foundation has ever presented so many grants at one time in Pawtucket. That tells me that there are more and more organizations doing their best to make a positive impact in and around the city,” said Murray. “Being a community bank, it is a core principle of ours to support the communities we serve so we look forward to seeing firsthand the good work these not-for-profits will do throughout the greater Pawtucket Region with the grants provided.”

The establishment of the Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation – Pawtucket Advisory Board was announced at the grand opening of the bank’s Pawtucket office in 2001, when $1 million was contributed to the foundation to provide grants to 501C(3) charitable organizations within Pawtucket. Since its inception, the BCSCF has donated more than $2.3 million to Pawtucket area organizations.
Since 1996, when the foundation began, it has donated more than $14 million to hundreds of different nonprofit organizations throughout Bristol County, Mass. and the Pawtucket area.

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